11 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide technical vision, architectural direction, and hands-on engineering leadership for major distributed database initiatives.
- Own critical database components from architecture and design through implementation, testing, rollout, and ongoing operations.
- Design and develop production systems involving storage, transactions, replication, consensus, geo-distribution, and high-concurrency workloads.
- Lead architectural decisions and balance long-term platform strategy with pragmatic customer and business requirements.
- Improve scalability, latency, availability, reliability, and infrastructure efficiency across eBay-scale systems.
- Mentor engineers and technical leads, raise engineering standards, and develop technical leadership in the Bengaluru organization.
- Establish standards for architecture, design, code quality, testing, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
- Lead design and code reviews for critical platform capabilities.
- Partner with engineers, architects, engineering leaders, product managers, and customers to translate workloads and requirements into platform capabilities and roadmaps.
- Lead projects through exploration, prototyping, benchmarking, implementation, deployment, and production support.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and open-source solutions for advancing NuData’s architecture.
- Use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development velocity and quality.
- Communicate architectural decisions and technical tradeoffs to technical teams and engineering leadership.
- Build technical alignment across teams in Bengaluru, the U.S., China, and Ireland.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with significant industry experience, or a PhD with equivalent experience building large-scale distributed systems.
- Significant hands-on experience architecting, building, and operating large-scale distributed databases, storage systems, or data infrastructure.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and database architecture, including consensus, replication, consistency models, partitioning, fault tolerance, high availability, and geo-distribution.
- Strong knowledge of database internals, including storage and buffer management, write-ahead logging, multi-version concurrency control, lock management, query planning and execution, indexing, and database engines.
- Strong transaction-management expertise covering isolation levels, concurrency control, deadlock detection, crash recovery, replication, and high-availability or failover strategies.
- Expert-level programming experience in one or more languages such as C++, Java, Python, Scala, or equivalent languages.
- Strong computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, concurrency, networking, operating systems, and software architecture.
- Extensive experience with object-oriented design, distributed programming, and large-scale relational or NoSQL database systems.
- Experience with modern infrastructure technologies and cloud-native environments, including Kubernetes and Docker.
- Ability to diagnose difficult production issues across software, storage, networking, and distributed-system boundaries and drive root-cause resolution.
- Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and influence architecture across multiple teams and organizations.
- Proven ability to lead large, technically complex initiatives and navigate architectural tradeoffs across globally distributed teams.
- Strong record of mentoring senior engineers and technical leads and raising engineering standards.
- Ability to produce high-quality architecture and design documents and build consensus without relying on organizational authority.
- Experience building production-grade software with AI coding agents while maintaining quality, availability, and maintainability.
- Ability to provide AI coding agents with appropriate context, specifications, constraints, and validation criteria.
- Hands-on experience delivering production software using AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Codex.
- Ability to lead effectively across organizational and geographic boundaries.
About TCGplayer
TCGplayer operates an online marketplace and software tools for buying and selling trading card games and related collectibles, serving hobby shops and individual sellers. It generates revenue through marketplace fees, seller subscriptions, and fulfillment programs such as TCGplayer Direct. An eBay subsidiary, the company provides authentication and logistics services that help stores list inventory at scale and reach buyers across the U.S. and internationally.